Dining Room
The family ate their meals in this room. The main meals in the Vitorian era were breakfast, luncheon, tea, dinner and supper. The children of the household would not have eaten with their parents until they reached a certain age. They would have eaten their meals in the day nursery.
Until about 1890 dining rooms had a very sombre feel to them. All paintwork was dark brown, grained and varnished.
Possibly the museum's most important painting hangs on the back wall of the dining room. The Tenby Fisherwoman by William Powell Frith was painted in 1880. The artist has painted his wife and his two daughters buying fish - and possibly oysters - from a Llangwm fish seller while on holiday in Tenby. Llangwm women walked to Tenby to sell their catch (11miles) and were still
vending in the 1960's.
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